Investigating open data portals automatically

• DOI: 10.1145/3209281.3209292
• Publication Date: 2018-05-31T15:40:20Z
• Authors: Andreiwid Sheffer...; Pär-Ola Zander; Flavio Soares Cor...
• Keywords: 05 social sciences; 0509 other social sciences; 0506 political science

Deploying a suitable open data platform is one of the most important requirements for succeeding in provision data. Currently, there are several platforms available market ranging from commercial ecosystem to free and source software. However, we know less about extent which they adopted what offer. This paper aims provide methodology investigate this. The illustrated through studying adoption use software comprehensive survey 3,152 portals worldwide. We have identified 1,104 installations relying on main existing CKAN, Socrata, ArcGIS Open Data, OpenDataSoft. To support our analysis, automatically fetched metadata 1,921,636 stored datasets. Our findings indicated that gap between effective platforms, particularly terms technology choice. These both descriptive analytical point, non-trivial showcase relevance methodology. work makes contributions regarding development methods provides insights availability based utilization organized by country frequency dataset updates.